Chiomaca
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- Oct 16, 2014
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It can be tricky to get the hang of, that's true. My gym has a couple of them set-up for people to use but they're almost never occupied, even during high use times of day. I have a "Fit Deck" for TRX that I got from Amazon. It's a deck of cards with a series of exercises broken down into upper body, lower body, and core. Sometimes I use the full deck, but post-run, I'll pull the lower body out and just cycle through the upeer body and core exercises. That and the Neila Ray (now "Dare Bee") website with hundreds of body weight workouts to choose from have helped me challenge myself and not get bored with a routine.TRX is sooooo hard though
I think a lot of the guys who are giving sales pitches focus on weight, especially at the beginning of the year when people are thinking about resolutions. I've had several similar encounters, even when I weighed 20 pounds less than I do know (which was natural, but not really healthy). It sounds like the actual trainer is more interested in you and your goals, which is nice.The "head trainer" was the one that kept beating me down about weight and numbers and blah blah blah. I really just wanted to have someone give me a plan for what I need to do to get faster and stronger, along with showing me how to use the machines, etc. In the end, I got that - but not until after I had to sit through some meathead tell me how I'll only be happy with myself if I'm a lean, toned size 2 with less than 10% body fat.
I was a little depressed about it last night, but I'm over it.
I have a border collie/cattle dog mix that keeps me on my toes!But we do have a border collie and a kelpie
I love running in San Diego, but some of those hills are killer. Balboa Park has some awesome trails!It was a 15k (my longest distance yet), but there were so many hills in San Diego (CA) and it was a tough course.